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Re: First Owls arrived on campus a decade ago

This was a good story and a testament to having a beat writer cover your team for a long time. I think he's done a great job over the years covering this team, though in the beginning it was practically impossible to get FAU information. Being a student at that time, I remember the excitement on campus (at least within my group of friends) for having a football team, and tailgating. We used to get up early on Saturday's and watch practice just as our friends at other schools were going to games.

Did anyone here go to the attempted "all night" tailgate party in the west gym parking lot? Something only college kids could dream up, start a tailgate party at midnight and go for 8 hours until practice started. It only lasted an hour before the FAU cops broke it up, but not without a fight. When we rebutted that this was a tailgate party, and those were allowed on campus, they didn't know what to do, it was the first time they'd ever had to deal with it. We eventually got the police chief on the phone to get a final decision!